What is in each release.

Release 888 is about one thing: the Beat the Rhythm website. Music, Beatmaps and Leaderboards now open the way the game's own Music Library does, as a deck of cards to choose from, with the game's pictures on them, and every move on the site lands on a beat. All the figures and top tens of the last release are still there, one card away instead of all at once. These pages have waited eight years for this, so it is fitting that they arrive with 888, a lucky number in many cultures.

New

• Music, Beatmaps and Leaderboards on the Beat the Rhythm website open on the library's cards, as in the game: Quick access, Browse, Stats and, when you are signed in with a linked player, Yours, with your own picture on it. Choose a card and the next column flies out of it; Back flies it home again.
• Every figure and every top ten is one card away. Behind Stats are the figures so far and the ten most popular of everything, each opening as a sheet that takes the whole stage, with a Back. Leaderboards is a deck too: the global boards as cards, then what the community has played, our soundtrack, the most contested beatmaps, finding a player by nickname, and where you stand.
• Every move is on a beat, 160 to the minute: cards burst forward on each thump, a sheet explodes into its pieces and reassembles in about two and a half seconds, and the big start cards morph into rows and back. Each beat sounds as one thump of our heartbeat, with a switch to mute it that the site remembers. With reduced motion set on your device, the columns simply change.
• The cards carry Beat the Rhythm's own library pictures, drawn in the Resonance Lounge colours.
• Your genres: signed in with a linked player, Yours on Music also lists the genres of the music you played, which the pages did not show before.
• Event websites are live: an event's organizer publishes its site from the event's screen in the app, and every published event is listed at events.resonancelounge.app. An event can also have a site on a domain of its own, set up with us.

Changed

• The library's filters sit in one row with the search, the labels above their boxes. Opening them zooms every piece out of the "+" with a sound made for the move, and closing returns them into it. Apply and Clear are two icons now, and neither closes the filters: Apply loads the results in place, with a spinner while it works.
• Music, Beatmaps and Leaderboards no longer repeat their name as a headline above the deck; the top bar and the trail already say where you are, and each page's description follows the deck.
• Every view on the three pages is still an address you can share, and the figures and top tens have addresses of their own now.
• When the app refuses an entry in a field far above the button you pressed, a note under the button now says so too, first when saving an event's site.

Fixed

• After every update of our server, the app asked you to update it, even when nothing required it. It now asks only when the server needs a newer app: a notice you can dismiss when a newer app would be better, and a stop only when an older app would not work. (all platforms)
• Music, Beatmaps and Leaderboards could stay without their figures: the job that builds them from the full play data asked the database for more memory than it gives. It now splits the work when it has to.

The Beat the Rhythm website speaks your language on every page now, from logging in to your account settings and the emails it sends. Players of Holodance and Beat the Rhythm can finally see what the games recorded, on pages it had carried as placeholders for years: leaderboards, every beatmap, and the music library to browse, with their own results first and a switch to keep them off the site.

New

• Music, Beatmaps and Leaderboards on the Beat the Rhythm website, from the games' own play data. Leaderboards: what the community has played so far, the global boards by skill, style, score and effort, every beatmap's board with your place in it, and a page per player. Beatmaps: the figures, the ten most popular of everything, and a page per beatmap with its board, how it moves you, and what the beatmap itself is. Music: the songs, artists and genres played most, and the library.
• The library: every piece of music played in the games, to browse by artist, song, genre, difficulty, tempo, length or mapper, or to search. Every view is an address you can share; with script on, a click slides the next column in without a page load, and Back and Forward slide too. Switch to all ranked osu! beatmaps to see how much of them have been played here.
• Signed in with a linked Steam login, your own results come first on all three: your window on every board, your beatmaps with their badges, the challenge that suits you, your most played songs and artists, and your hours of music.
• Game results, in the account settings: whether your results appear on the Beat the Rhythm website under your game nickname. On by default; switch it off and you are on no board and have no page. The privacy policy says what is published and what never is.
• Procedural beatmaps, the ones the games generate from your own audio files, have a page of their own: how many were played, the songs played most, and how their gameplay was rated against human-made beatmaps by the players who rated both.

Changed

• The Beat the Rhythm website in 24 languages: logging in, signing up, resetting a password, two-factor sign-in and every account settings page, with the language in the address so a link keeps it. Choose a language from the menu at the top; the site remembers it, and an account keeps the language it chose.
• The emails the Beat the Rhythm website sends, from confirming an address to the renewal reminder, arrive in your language, on the same design as the pages.
• The whole Beat the Rhythm website is on one design, the product pages': the account pages, the Holodance and Beat the Rhythm pages, the tools the moderation team and the operators use. The old look is gone.
• The privacy policy no longer mentions an analytics tool we stopped running: the Beat the Rhythm website uses no analytics and no cookies beyond the necessary ones.
• Counts read right in every language: one beatmap, two beatmaps, and the forms a language needs between.
• On Windows, Mac and Linux, checking out, verifying your identity and deleting your account open in your browser, with a short page at the end that brings you back to the app. Before, these replaced the app's own window.
• The sign-in buttons show each provider in its own look, in a fixed order, with a green check on the ones that have worked for you on this device.
• On the password step, the button sits right under the field with its message beneath it, so a phone keyboard cannot cover it.

Fixed

• On Windows, Mac and Linux, signing in with another account (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, X, Steam or Spotify) did not go through at all: every attempt ended in "That did not go through". The sign-in now opens in your browser, and the app comes back to the front when you are done.
• On a phone, signing in with Facebook or Google could end with "the link is no longer valid" after the browser handed back to the app. The hand-back carried an extra fragment on its address, and the app read it as part of the code.
• Sign in with Apple in a browser could fail after the first sign-in on a freshly started server, because the key that signs the request to Apple had been closed behind the cache. It is created afresh each time now.

Sign in with Apple works on every platform, an account can link and remove its other ways to log in, and signing up in a browser starts with a verified email address. Plans are priced by what is affordable where you live, and the pricing page says how.

New

• Sign in with Apple also works in a browser and in the apps for Android, Windows, Mac and Linux. Before, it was on iPhone and iPad only.
• Other ways to log in, in the account settings: see the accounts from other platforms linked to yours, add one, or remove one. The last way into an account that has no password stays, so you cannot lock yourself out.
• The sign-in providers you have used on a device are remembered and shown first there, marked Works for you.
• The pricing page explains how plans are priced: by what a plan costs compared with what people earn in each country, measured against Germany. The more affordable plans follow that most closely.
• Plans for companies come in sizes by team, from 4 people to 1,000 or more.
• Ethics, Terms, Privacy, Data deletion and Contact are on the website in the same style as the rest of it.

Changed

• In a browser, signing up starts with your email address: a six-digit code is sent to it, then you choose a password, then your name. The apps on phones and computers keep the quick start with just a name.
• Connections are now called Your people.
• Countries are named in your language wherever you choose one. Before, the list was in English in every language.
• Several languages had drifted between formal and informal ways of addressing you. Each now addresses you one way throughout.

Fixed

• An account that never got an email address and a password can now be deleted from the device that made it, with a quiet link on the Identity tab above Log out. Before, nothing led to the delete screen for such an account.

The VR client

Not shared yet. Since the first release it had an early performance optimization and workflow pass.

Build 744 is the first release we describe in full: the lightweight app for finding your people, keeping them close, and meeting them online and in real life. Every release after it is listed above this one, as what changed since.

What is in the first release

Getting in

• The app opens on the welcome screen, where the name Resonance Lounge drifts past in many languages. Tap one and the app speaks that language. Once you are signed in, a setting lets you open straight into the app instead.
• Start with nothing but a name. When you want to get back in from another device, add an email address and a password.
• Two-factor sign-in with an authenticator app, with codes to your phone by SMS or WhatsApp, or with both. Locked out? A reset link by email or a code to your verified phone gets you back in.
• Sign in with an account you already have: Sign in with Apple on iPhone and iPad, and Google, Microsoft, Facebook, X, Steam or Spotify wherever the sign-in screen offers them.
• Change your login email (it changes only once you confirm the new address), your password and your phone number from the account settings.
• Delete your account from the app or from the website. What is yours goes; conversations you took part in and circles you organized keep their shape without your name. The data deletion page says what stays, and for how long.

Identities

• One account, several identities, each with its own name, picture and bio, so the people you meet through work and the people you dance with can know you by different names.
• Company accounts: one identity that several trusted people can present, as employees or as representatives, with the owner deciding who.
• Show your code to connect: a QR code that is also an ordinary invite link, or an offline code made on your phone that another phone can check with no network at all. Connections made offline are sent once you are back online.
• When someone has shown you more than one name, choose the one you see them by: theirs, a name between the two of you, or that name everywhere. They are not told.

Connections

• Your connections, requests first. A person's page shows how often you have met, in real life and virtually, and which of your identities met which of theirs.
• Chat, voice and video with a person from their page, and per person, whether they may see your location and what reaches you from them as a notification.
• Block someone and they will not see you anywhere in Resonance Lounge, without being told. Report them with a reason; the report includes your conversations and meetings with them from the last seven days, so the moderation team can see what happened.
• A suspended account sees why and until when, and can appeal once.

Circles and events

• Circles for the people close to you, for communities and for events: create one, edit it, and decide per circle who sees you, whether members may message you, and how precisely your location shows there.
• Roles inside a circle: organizers, moderators, facilitators and helpers. The people who run a circle can remove members and ban them from it.
• An event is a circle with a programme, by day and by room. Mark sessions as Interested or Going, and see your own programme across every event you follow.
• Organizers build the programme in the app, with rooms, sessions, pictures and the people who run them, and set the event's area on a map.
• At the event: tap I'm here, or check in with the code shown by a phone set up in the room (iPhone and Android).

Around you, and meeting in real life

• A map of your rough area and of the people you know who share theirs with you, with Find for one person or one circle. Only your latest rough area is kept, not a history, and only people you know can see it.
• Request to meet: when both of you agree, you see each other's exact position until one of you stops it, and then it is dropped.
• We met: record a meeting in real life; the other person is asked to confirm it, and a push notification tells you when they have. Keep where you met if you both want to; the rougher of your two choices wins.
• Resonate locally, for the people right next to you: switch it on for 15 minutes, swap codes, or find each other over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, which shows roughly how far away someone is. Or touch your phone to theirs. (iPhone and Android)

Talking

• Chat, voice and video with a person or a circle, with any one participant full screen. A call follows you through the app while you do other things.
• Incoming calls ring on your phone even while the app is closed (iPhone and Android); on the web and the desktop, a ringing sheet appears in the app.
• Conversations have a start and an end. Afterwards you can read who took part and for how long they spoke, and, depending on your plan, the transcript, the recording, a summary and a translation into your language. Save a conversation as a document. A record is deleted when everyone in it agrees.
• In a circle call, mute someone for yourself, or for everyone if you look after the circle. Choose whether you see your own video mirrored; the others see you unmirrored either way.

Resonance

• The Resonance tab, where Resonance Lounge looks for people you might resonate with. Nothing is compared until you switch an engine on, and a match is revealed only when both of you say yes.
• Skills you offer and skills you are looking for, interests weighted in five steps, and how many people stand between you and someone else.
• Birth charts from one date, time and place of birth, read four ways: Western astrology, the Chinese Four Pillars, Indian Jyotish and Human Design, each with a reading for today, this week and this month.
• Skills and interests come from a shared list that you can walk from broad to specific.

Notifications

• An inbox of what happened while you were away, and push notifications on iPhone and Android. A push for a message names who wrote, not what they wrote.
• For each kind of notification, choose off, in the app only, or as a system notification.

The feel of it

• The mark has a heartbeat, felt as well as seen on phones, and its rings drift slowly about their centre. Leave the app alone for long and its colours fade; spend time with it, or play on the welcome screen, and they come back.
• 24 languages, with Arabic and Urdu laid out right to left. The translations have not yet been reviewed by native speakers, so some wording will improve.

Updates

• The app knows which versions of the Resonance Lounge servers it was made for. When it is out of date it asks you to update and lets you enter anyway; only a version too old to work is stopped.
• On Mac, Windows and Linux, Update now in that notice installs the new version in place.
• When something goes wrong, the error report shows the build number first, so a screenshot of it tells us exactly which version you are on.

Where it runs

• iPhone and iPad through TestFlight, Android through a Google Play test or as a direct download, Windows, Mac with Apple silicon, Linux as an AppImage, a .deb or an .rpm, and in the browser. The downloads page has every one.
• Bluetooth, Wi-Fi discovery, touching phones and room check-in need a phone. Push notifications reach phones; the desktop apps show notifications inside the app.
• Buying a plan through the App Store or Google Play is in the app and is being switched on; the plans and what they include can already be read there.